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It was finally time to enter Los Angeles but we were warned by a few people to stay away from the I405 as it had constant traffic jams. To be honest we were really excited but before we could go into Los Angeles we had a few errands to run. The most important one was trying to figure out how to send a parcel home as the car boot was filled with …

As Nick pointed out in the previous post, LA was probably the destination we were least excited about on the trip - more of a why-not stopover. I've never been that desperate to visit the US, considering it as not exotic enough. They speak English, for crying out loud! But LA has actually been surprisingly special for us, and not just because a …

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... had one and paid for another. The hand and foot prints in front of Gorman's were cool though. We also popped down to Gorman's Egyptiantheatre down the road. N started feeling better. So we headed further out. We visited the La Brea tar pit, which ...

... that behind-the-scenes tour. This was a walking tour to show the history of Hollywood movies and the first premiers at the Egyptiantheatre. A guide took us the the Chinese theatre too where movie premiers are still held today. This is the location of ...

... Boulevard and took a tour to learn a little more about Hollywood history. Highlights: Starting at the Grauman's EgyptianTheatre where is began and actually sitting in the theatre where the first premier was held. Seeing the ...

... the way. We then went on a walking audio tour around Hollywood. This tour was really informative. We began at the Egyptiantheatre where the first movie premiered and actors/actresses began to be treated like movie stars rather than unreliable, lower ...

... but we were pleased to find people like Marilyn Monroe, Ozzy Osbourne, Jimi Hendrix and BB King (my namesake!). We saw the Egyptiantheatre which was pretty cool (although we didn't think that the hieroglyphs were a patch on the ones at Luxor!) and ...

... mansion house. On Tuesday we saw the stars going into the film premiere of Across the Universe which was at the EgyptianTheatre (we only recognised Evan Rachel Wood and Ryan Gosling!). On Wednesday we went on a really cheesy tour of the stars ...

... future Logies on the centre stage, and then left our fans behind and headed to where Hollywood all began at The original EgyptianTheatre opened by Sid Grauman, who later opened the Famous Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. The walking tour was really ...

... 's great). Our trip amazingly also coincided with the annual LA Noir City film festival: two weeks of nothing but film noir at the Grauman EgyptianTheatre! So we went to see Joan Fontaine in Born To Be Bad, a great film with a lousy title and one we can ...

... to find out about the group so she could point things out along the way. We started at the Grauman Egyptiantheatre, where the 1st ever movie premiere was held! then moved along the boulevard (obviously constantly walking over famous peoples ...